Andover High School was a public high school in Bloomfield Township, Oakland County, Michigan, near Bloomfield Hills and in Greater Detroit. It was a part of the Bloomfield Hills School District. The school's final principal was Rob Durecka. The school teams were known as the Andover Barons.
In 2010, the decision was made to merge Andover and Lahser High schools and build a single high school on the current Andover property.
In 2013 it was merged into Bloomfield Hills High School, which is located on the former Andover campus. The new combined high school opened in the fall of 2015.
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History
Andover High School, originally named Bloomfield Hills High School, opened in the fall of 1931. It presided on Vaughan Road, built on land donated to the district by George Gough Booth. In 1936, Bloomfield Hills High School had its first graduating class of only eight students. Due to the expanding population growth in the area, a larger school was necessary. This came into fruition in 1955 when Bloomfield Hills High School moved to its new location on Andover Road. However, sizing again became a problem, only this time a new school was built. In 1967, it was renamed Andover High School, as a second high school, Lahser, opened in the district. The two schools merged in 2013 to become the new Bloomfield Hills High School.
Academics
Over 98% of Andover's graduates attended college after graduation, and the actual graduation rate was about 97%. Average SAT scores for Andover were (1233/1600), above the national average. Two Andover alumni have won the Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford, in the UK. Wen Shi (Johns Hopkins University) won the award in 2003, and Abdul El-Sayed (University of Michigan) won it in 2008. One Andover alumnus won the Goldwater Scholarship, Andrew Zureick (Dartmouth College), in 2012 for excellence in the sciences.
Sports
State Championships
Men's Soccer
1978
Men's Track
1938
1939
1948
Men's Golf
1980
1992
Men's Tennis
1997
2002
2004
2005
Men's Swimming and Diving
1986
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
Women's Swimming and Diving
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1986
Notable alumni
Lawrence Bacow, President of Harvard University
Richard Bernstein, Michigan Supreme Court Justice
Lisa Brown, Michigan state representative
Rob Cantor, singer and guitarist for the band Tally Hall
Jonathan Chait, writer
Abdul El-Sayed, Public health advocate and candidate governor of Michigan in the 2018 Democratic Party primary
Sheri Fink, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Dana Jacobson, sports news anchor
Colin Kroll, Founder of Vine and HQ Trivia
Shalina D. Kumar, attorney and US district judge
Rick Lax, entertainer and author
Marcus Sakey, TV host, writer; author of The Blade ItselfThe Blade Itself
Zubin Sedghi, singer and bassist for the band Tally Hall
Chad Smith, drummer for Red Hot Chili Peppers (moved to Lahser High School where he graduated in 1980)
Alex Winston, musician
The Andover Shield
The Andover Shield was Andover High School's award-winning newspaper. In recent years, the newspaper and its staff have won many MIPA awards and was first honored with a Spartan award in 2007.